Combined check and order blank.



H. C. DUNFEE.

COMBINED CHECK AND ORDER BLANK.4

APPLICATION HLED oCT.12. \9|1.

Patented Nov. l2, 1918.

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N; TED STATES HOD C. DUNFEE, OF CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

COMBINED CHECK AND ORDER BLANK.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

Application led October 12, 1917. Serial No. 196,175.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HOD C. DUNFEE, a Citizen of the United States, residing at Charleston, in the county of Kanawha and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Check and Order Blanks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combination check and order blank for use in the transaction of commercial business.

One of the objects of my invention'is to provide a, combination check and order blank which when mailed to a customer (which may lbe a retailer or consumer) by a manufacturer constitutes a check to such customer for a certain amount of money representing a certain rebate or discount corresponding to the saving in this method of soliciting an order for goods, and when customer indorses and deposits the check in bank for collection itbecomes an order to the manufacturer for the quantity of goods specified thereon.

A further object of my invention is to provide a combination check and order blank by the use of which in commercial transactions the manufacturer and customer (retailer or consumer) are brought into closer business relations, and whereby the usual middleman and salesman are elimi-` nated, thus effecting a great saving to the ultimate consumer.

Another object of my invention 1s to provide a combinationcheck and order blank by the use of which the expense connected with the selling of goods in the usual manner is greatly reduced and the margin between the manufacturers price and the consumers price is made very narrow.

A further object is to provide a combination check and order blank which will demand attention when received by a retailer or consumer so that the latter will become interested and inform himself of the' immense saving effected by transacting business in this way by reading the literature that accompanies the check.`

A further object is to provide a combination check and order blank which renders it unnecessary for the customer to expend postage to send an order for goods or to write a letter or take eXtraI time or trouble to fill out the order. All that is required is to indore the check and deposit the same in ban A further object is to provide a combination check and order blank that will assure faithfulness on the part of the manufacturer, the latter being the loser of the rebate or discount if he fails to till the order.

By my invention a customer will naturally' give attention to the check, whereas a regular order blank might and frequently does not command attention but is thrown away.

A customer appreciates this system of selling because it gives him the saving effected by the use of the check and order blank and it does not necessitate giving any of the time heretofore required by a traveling salesman, and therefore the customer in turn will eventually lower his prices to the ultimate consumer.

No postage is required to send the order to a manufacturer as the check and order blank returns to him through the regular banking channels. l

My invention consists in the combination check and order blank substantially as hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a face view of my combined check and order blank showing the obverse or check side thereof.

Fig. 2 is a face view of the reverse or order side of the combined check and order blank.

In carrying out my invention I provide the device 1, which may be of paper or any other suitable fabric such asbank checks are usually prepared upon. One face, as 2, resembles 1n its general characteristics and appearanee any `ordinary bank check, that is to sayit is provided as by printing or otherwise upon said face 2 withY the name of the city and State wherein the drawer of the check is located, spaces for the insertion of the date and the name of the payee, the name and location of the bank on which the check is drawn, and instructions to; pay a certain amount of money to the payee. A space is left at the bottom of the check for Athe signature of the drawer of the check.

Preferably there also appears upon the face 2 of the check a statement as to what the amount of money specified in the check is intended to represent, as for instance the wordsfFor advance discount'as per indorsement hereon.

In practice, the amount of money specified in the body of the check is intended-to cover the rebate or discount which the manufacturer is willing to allow the customer for the quantity of goods specified on the reverse or order side of the check.

Therefore, such amount will necessarily vary according to the particular kind o goods and quantity thereof ordered by the customer, as will be clearly understood.

Other matter may appear somewhere on the face of the check if desired', as for instance the card of the manufacturer, t'. e. his name, business and location, as shown at the upper left-hand corner of the check.

The arrangement of the various inscriptions and the wording thereof may be varied, the'check shown bein simply intended as an example to give a c ear understanding of the idea involved in the invention.

The reverse side or face 3 of the check is provided, as by printing or otherwise, with a statement'to the effect that the indorsing and using of the check constitutes an order to the drawer of the check, while below such statement appears the name of the goods, the quantity, the price and terms.

Below the above-mentioned inscription appears a statement signifying that the order is to be shipped to the payee promptly on return of the check to the bank named therein and at the price and terms set out on the reverse side of the check.

The arrangement of the various inscriptions on the order side of the check, and the wording may be varied, and other inscriptions may be added without departing from the principle of the invention.

The advantages of the invention will be readily apparent to any one from the foregoing description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A device such as described, one face of which bears a blank check form and having upon said face an inscription designating in eect that the amount of money payable by said check is an advance discount according to an indorsement on the other face of the device, and such other face bearing said indorsement, the same constituting in eifect an order on the drawer lof the check for a quantity of merchandise at a definite price less an amount corresponding to the aforesaid advance'discoun 2. A device such as described, one face of which bears a blank check form, and the other face being provided with an inscription specifying the character of goods, the quantity, price and substantially to the effect that the indorsing and using of the check constitutes an order to the drawer of the check for the quantity of goods at the price and upon the terms specified, and an inscription substantially to the effect that the order is to be shipped to the payee on return of the check to the bank named in the check at the price and terms set forth.

In testimony whereof vI aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HOD C. DUNFEE.

Witnesses I-I. A. GREEN,

RAY V. GLAzn terms, an inscriptionV 

